“Identity Thief Targets Billionaire Allen” raises the question of how identity thefts are carried out. It observes that identity thieves might obtain a bank customer’s account information from the trash. Armed with this type of information, the thieves then attempt to impersonate the bank customer and illegally access bank accounts. The article indicates these thieves can employ spyware and computer hacking to steal personal information. This kind of hacking was utilized by identity thief Albert Gonzalez, who was accused of stealing 130 million credit / debit cards by fraudulently accessing computers at Heartland Payment Systems.

Some bank tellers, medical office staff, etc., too illegally provide identity thieves with a prospective victim’s personal identifying information like social security numbers and dates of birth. Determined identity thieves also carry out their crimes through forged documents, pretext calls, mail intercepts or by obtaining a corporate director’s personal information from public registries.

About Fred Abrams

Fred L. Abrams has located tens of millions of dollars hidden in offshore tax havens and filed legal proceedings in Zurich, Geneva, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Puerto Rico to seek discovery from foreign bank witnesses. A member of the New York bar since 1990, he has handled a wide variety of legal matters in which assets were hidden, such as RICO, money laundering, identity theft and tax fraud.